Art? I think this was in interesting idea. Could have been developed, I think I would have liked it. Would have been way better than C-Minor. AND it was a season three episode with Bumblebee an actual original character (something that did not happen often in season 3)

Why would the Quint want to start a war between the Autobots and Decepticons? Haven't they been doing that for like 4 million years?

I think the implication was that it was supposed to be a Mutually Assured Destruction kind of war - it "has a 97% probability of starting a devastating war" (italics mine.) This is the kind of script that would have fit in well with much of the silliness of season three, and yes - seems better than the 'worst' episodes.